Vietnam will receive cancer vaccines from Japan in the near future, Prof Dr Ta Thanh Van, Rector of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) told Lao Dong newspaper.
Vietnam will receive cancer vaccines from Japan in the near future, Prof Dr Ta Thanh Van, Rector of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) told Lao Dong newspaper (Illustrative photo: laodong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam willreceive cancer vaccines from Japan in the near future, Prof Dr Ta Thanh Van,Rector of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) told Lao Dong newspaper.
The vaccine, which treats existingcancer, is a key part of the university’s cancer prevention research to bedeployed.
Antigens from the tumour of thepatients will be taken out and processed, then brought back to the patients’bodies to stimulate the creation of antibodies, he explained.
Van said cancer vaccines have alreadybeen applied in some hospitals in Japan and proved effective against severaltypes of cancer.
The HMU will launch the vaccines inVietnam after receiving approval from the Ministry of Health, he added.
More than 300,000 Vietnamese patientsare struggling with cancer, said Director of the Vietnam National CancerHospital (Hospital K) Tran Van Thuan.
In addition, about 165,000 new casesof cancer and 115,000 deaths due to the disease are reported in Vietnam annually.
Each year, Vietnamese people spent some2 billion USD on medical treatment, mostly on cancer, in foreign countries. -VNA
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Vietnam will receive cancer vaccines from Japan in the near future, Prof Dr Ta Thanh Van, Rector of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU) told Lao Dong newspaper (Illustrative photo: laodong.vn) 
